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Some captive apes also do some well-aimed feces-tossing.


Sylkat

Aaaaagh!

NO!


Sylkat

Red Lion, PA (where I went to school), Dallastown, PA, Yoe, PA, York Township, PA (where I actually live, even though it has a Red Lion. PA mailing address), and Windsor, PA (where I grew up) was once the cigar Capitol of the U. S.

The northernmost county in the United States is not in Alaska.

The now-defunct M. P. Moeller Pipe Organ Company of Hagerstown, MD also manufactured automobiles.

The largest Austin Pipe Organ is located at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Hanover, Pa. It is currently undergoing a multi-year, multi-million dollar rebuild.

The three largest pipe organs in the world are located within a 200 mile radius. They are:

The Atlantic City Convention Center organ (Midmer-Losh)
The Wanamaker Organ at Macy's in Downtown Philadelphia (Los Angeles Art Organ/John Wanamaker's organ shop)
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Hanover, PA (Austin)

The pipe organ builder with the most instruments in existence is the M. P. Moller Company of Hagerstown, MD

MountainLaurel is so poisonous that if any of its pollen is collected by bees and used in making honey, the honey will kill you.


Sylkat

Snake-handling churches are illegal in America.


Sylkat

Doctor Who is the world's longest running TV show with its first episode on November 23, 1963. It is also the day after the Kennedy assassination. Star Trek however was premiered in 1966 and only ran for three seasons with 79 episodes. Doctor who has 33 seasons with 798 episodes , and 106 of them are missing.

Lo is the most examined of Jupiter's moons by NASA.

Nikola Tesla was so passionate about his lectures he would gove them to an empty room on days none of his students came.

Studies reveal that on average people with Asperger's have far more physical endurance than NTs.

The Havanese cat is the all brown varient of the Siammese.

Modern banking is modled after a systematic approach blueprinted in Scotland after being introduces there by Jewish immigrants who arrivesd from other European countries notably Italy.

Narwhals really exist!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO58kt-jETA[/youtube]

They look like some mythical beast that used to be seen on ancient maps.

Obscure fact:

Andre Norton had to use a masculine nom de plume because no publisher would print science fiction by a woman.

Sylkat

The same is said of George Sand, but this is wrong. Amantine Lucile Dupin had other reasons to adopt a masculine name.
(Well, George Sand didn't write science fiction.)

Radclyffe Hall had very different reasons for a masculine nom de plume.

And an unusually sad life.


Sylkat

Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor were both converts to Judaism who kept their belief after losing the husband they 'converted for.' (Monroe lost Arthur Miller to divorce, Taylor lost Mike Todd to accidental death.)

There are 613 commandments in the Old Testament, of which 248 are positive and 365 are negative commandments.